Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.
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Evil changes everybody!
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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